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JezdziecBezNicka

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From: Cracow, Poland

Registered: 2009-12-03

Posts: 89

Ubuntu / hal / devicekit

Ubuntu is boasting that they have completely removed the hal package. How did they do that? I mean - I thought it is the app that decides whether it uses hal or devicekit, and while gnome uses the latter, kde (afaik) uses the good old hal. So does xorg.

So what am I missing here? Did Ubuntu team do a lot of hacking to become independent of hal? Or am I just wrong and misinformed :)

It's not that I have something against hal. I'm just curious :)

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Skripka

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From: 2X1280X1024

Registered: 2009-02-19

Posts: 555

Re: Ubuntu / hal / devicekit

Ubuntu is testing Lucid, which uses the latest Xorg and friends--which is where/when the removal of HAL will occur--i.e. April.  It has NOT occured in a stable release yet on Ubuntu.

In Arch, we need the new Xorg et al to simply hit stable.  Which will be "WIR"

Last edited by Skripka (2010-01-28 23:07:29)

JezdziecBezNicka

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From: Cracow, Poland

Registered: 2009-12-03

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Re: Ubuntu / hal / devicekit

Thanks.

I wonder if I would see any difference between hal and devkit :)

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eldragon

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From: Buenos Aires

Registered: 2008-11-18

Posts: 1,029

Re: Ubuntu / hal / devicekit

Thanks.

I wonder if I would see any difference between hal and devkit

i dont know, but it will definately break half of your boxes

lordmetroid

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Registered: 2009-09-27

Posts: 75

Re: Ubuntu / hal / devicekit

That day that sorrow...
I for one look forward to free the computations of the hal tyrant.

d4g0n

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Registered: 2010-03-13

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Re: Ubuntu / hal / devicekit

I am looking forward to this .

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Primoz

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From: Ljubljana-Slovena-EU

Registered: 2009-03-04

Posts: 689

Re: Ubuntu / hal / devicekit

Will I be able to use hal with the new non-hal Xorg?
I kinda like hal.

Even if it is homicidal and crazy.

Last edited by Primoz (2010-03-13 17:06:42)

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wonder

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Re: Ubuntu / hal / devicekit

Will I be able to use hal with the new non-hal Xorg?
I kinda like hal.

Even if it is homicidal and crazy.

the future xorg will have udev support and new configurations in /etc/X11/xorg.d or something.

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